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posted by janrinok on Sunday November 24 2019, @08:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-drink-to-that-but-I'll-pick-my-own-beer dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The next beer you crack open at the Enterprise Center may have an incredibly minimal carbon footprint, St. Louis Blues fans. Anheuser-Busch said on Thursday it completed the very first beer delivery using zero-emissions delivery vehicles.

Specifically, it hauled the shipment of beer in a Nikola hydrogen-electric semi, before its partner brought the adult beverage to its final destination in a BYD electric truck. Anheuser-Busch placed an order for 800 of the hydrogen-electric Nikola semi trucks last year as the beer brewer looks to turn its entire long-haul vehicle fleet into a zero-emissions one. By 2025, the company has committed to shaving 25% of its carbon emissions.

The beer brewer will run a fleet of Nikola Two hydrogen-electric trucks. These models do not solely run on hydrogen, but incorporate both a hydrogen fuel cell and battery-electric powertrain. On hydrogen, the Two should go up to 750 miles. With electricity from the battery, Nikola expects up to 350 miles of range. The BYD electric trucks, like the one used in this first shipment, are meant to complement the semis.


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 24 2019, @09:31AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 24 2019, @09:31AM (#924130) Homepage

    Are you saying that beer farts are the environmentally-unfriendly aspect of drinking beer? Now that's hard to believe, tell me the last time you were in a bar and it smelled like a sewage treatment plant. I've been in lots of packed, cramped little bars during peak business hours and have never smelled any trace of fart. Well, wait a minute, one time I was in a bar and got a whiff of poo-poo but that was because somebody thought they farted but actually shit themselves. We call it "pants-chili."